One of my students hit the skids financially, dropped out of Roundtable (my highest level coaching group) and just sort of vanished for almost 2 years. He had come to a 4 Man Intensive, gone through the Bobsled Run and come to one Roundable meeting.

He was mostly working in the real estate business, which as you know started to slide in ’07. He was raking in cash for awhile. But then he started missing payments and then disappeared.

All I knew was he was having money troubles…

I had no idea.

Just got this amazing email from him the other day, wanting to get back in the groove and asking us to work with him on a payment plan.

Richard from Florida. Here’s his amazing story:

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On Monday July 20, I’ll give you a rare look into how my email grand strategy works, complete with specific emails dissected.

If you are serious about growing your business right now and thriving during the economic storm, then this is an event should be considered a “must attend”.

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Out there in the vast ocean called the Internet is a sea of people you want to become your customers. How will that happen for you?

—> Facets of Customer Development:

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I’m writing this from far northern Wisconsin where the summer days are long, the morning air is cool and the nights are so brisk that in the deep woods you hear no insects at night. Only silence, occasionally interrupted by the call of a loon on the lake.

I’m with my 10 year old son Cuyler and we’re doing the father son thing for a couple of days.

We’re sleeping in a tent and let’s just put it this way…. in the wee hours of the morning, if nature calls, a battle ensues.

A battle between the warmth of the sleeping bag and the discomfort of my bladder.

I have resigned myself to the reality that the bladder always wins in the end :^>

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My morning commute – from bed to library, where I write – is about 18 feet. Beats 18 miles, believe me.

But there is one disadvantage (isn’t there always a potential disadvantage with everything?):

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